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More attacks could be soon be underway as the hacker group The Shadow Brokers that leaked the vulnerabilities used by WannaCry and Adylkuzz has threatened to publish more. To be fair, numerous mobile devices used for RF or other applications in the DC do not have direct access to the Internet, making them less susceptible to attack. Read More »

Prompting Wednesday's gains was news US oil production last week saw its first decline in three months. Preliminary April data indicated stocks would rise further, the IEA said . Gasoil includes jet fuel, diesel and heating oil. Breakeven level in the sector is now in the range of $43-45 a barrel. The state of inventories appears more mixed in Asia. Read More »

The country's oil minister said last week Iraq would support a six-month extension. Venezuela is undergoing a wave of unrest with protesters angry at an economy in crisis, with food and medicine shortages and soaring inflation. West Texas Intermediate for June delivery climbed 4 cents to $48.89 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange at 8:28 a.m.in Tokyo. In recent years Saudi Arabia has been in a pitched battle with the United States to try to reduce the price of oil. Read More »

It also is launching an attempt to make its voice-controlled digital assistant more proactive and visual while expanding its audience to Apple's iPhone, where it will try to outwit an older peer, Siri. Now Google can identify photos you click and suggest to you to share them appropriately. The so-called Lite apps will be making their way to Android Go. Read More »

So were systems owned by FedEx and the Spanish communications company Telefonica , among many others. The WannaCry creators are suspected to be from North Korea , as discovered by Neel Mehta , a Google security researcher . In both cases, these computer owners are the digital equivalent of medical vaccine deniers. As of Sunday, the cyberattack had struck more than 200,000 computers in more than 150 countries, according to Rob Wainwright, the executive director of Europol, Europe's ... Read More »

Microsoft in March released a patch for users to remove the vulnerability, but long-standing delays in updating major systems-such as the National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom -exacerbated by a lack of support from the software company, allowed the attack to spread quickly around the world. Read More »

Darien Huss, a senior security research engineer at Proofpoint, warned that "a new attack" was a major concern following the first cyber assault. When the National Security Agency lost control of the software behind the WannaCry cyberattack, it was like "the US military having some of its Tomahawk missiles stolen", Microsoft President Brad Smith says , in a message about the malicious software that has created havoc on computer networks in more than 150 countries since Friday. Read More »

The newspaper cited the White House's official written account of the Oval Office meeting. "It seems to me now to be a criminal investigation", said Senator Graham. In addition, Comey wrote a memo detailing Trump's comments to him in February saying "I hope you can let this go", referring to the Flynn probe, a source who saw the memo said on Tuesday. Read More »

From there, the attack spilled across the globe. The tool doesn't stop the worm from spreading, but it prevents files from getting encrypted. A group of hackers known as the Shadow Brokers said earlier this year that the NSA had tools for breaching the global system that allows for the transfer of money between banks. Read More »

Consequently, despite the production cuts being wiped out by the increasing USA supply, Saudi Arabia, the largest producer and defacto head of the OPEC , along with Russian Federation, has shown its willingness to extend the proposed 1.8 million (bpd) supply restrictions until March 2018. Read More »

The "Shadow Brokers" group of hackers employs the ransomware for acquiring unauthorized admission into computer owners' data-files as well as lock their access to the owners, guaranteeing to unlock exclusively when a $300 ransom payment is made in Bitcoins. Read More »

The deal was praised by president of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, Craig Uden. The Trump administration has signed a trade deal with China . We have all the ingredients for a good trade deal with a market that is absolutely seeking the kind of high-quality beef the United States of America has to offer. Read More »

Two US officials said on Monday that Mr Trump had disclosed classified information about a planned Isil operation to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov when they met last week, plunging the White House into a fresh controversy just four months into Mr Trump's tenure. Read More »

And we have the G-7. "The great thing about a trip, they control the environment, you control the interaction, you control the agenda and you control the press access". And he, as his national security adviser put it recently, will call on these Muslim leaders to promote a peaceful vision of Islam. Trump's instinct, instead, is to fight back against critics he believes are trying to destroy his presidency through the Russian Federation investigation. Read More »

Among the names making big moves are retailer American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE:AEO), biotech Syndax Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:SNDX), and chip stock Advanced Micro Devices, Inc . Below, we'll look more closely at these stocks to tell you why they did so well. A trend analysis is a method of analysis that allows traders to predict what will happen with a stock in the future. Read More »

Both the Dow and S&P 500 fell below their 50-day moving average for first time since late April. The S&P 500 shed 43 at 2,357, while the Nasdaq lost a whopping 158 points, or 2.57%, to finish at 6,011. The euro added 0.3 percent to $1.1117, extending Tuesday's 1 percent surge and heading for the highest since November 4. In other futures trading, natural gas fell four cents to 3.19 dollars per 1,000 cubic feet. Read More »

The shared currency EURUSD, -0.3546% traded at $1.0960, down from $1.0999 late Friday in NY. In market parlance, it's a clear case of buying the rumor and selling the fact. "I was never fascinated by power", she said in a recent interview on state-run TV. This accelerated procedure, bypassing parliament, could mean a fiery start to his term as France's highly activist unions would likely bring protests out onto the streets, as they did a year ago when Socialist Prime Minister Manuel Valls ... Read More »

The NHS was one of several organisations targeted, resulting in patients being turned away from A&E and operations being cancelled. In the blog post , the group said it was setting up a "monthly data dump" and that it could offer tools to break into web browsers, network routers, phone handsets, plus newer exploits for Windows 10 and data stolen from central banks. Read More »

It's a position of conscience for me". Backers cite a long litany of potential offenses, dating back to the presidential campaign and Trump aides' ties to Russian Federation. The intelligence Trump shared came from Israel, the New York Times reported . That news conference was held on the same day news broke that the White House was stonewalling the House Oversight Committee's probe into Flynn's security clearance application by refusing to turn over documents pertaining to his security ... Read More »

IT comes as NHS Digital said it "continues to work around the clock alongside the National Cyber Security Centre, to support NHS organisations that have reported any issues related to this cyber-attack". In a blog post on Sunday, Microsoft President Brad Smith appeared to tacitly acknowledge what researchers had already widely concluded: The ransomware attack leveraged a hacking tool, built by the U.S. Read More »

Corporates are internally trying to resolve it through their IT team and those who have not got any back up of their data are resorting to paying the ransom through bitcoin. Ellis favors a more transparent process for the government, and close cooperation with the cybersecurity community, which, like the British researcher lauded for helping stem the WannaCry attack, can offer tremendous knowledge and resources in the battle against cybercrime and national security threats, he said. Read More »

Who perpetrated this wave of attacks remains unknown. The most disruptive cyber attack in the seven-decade history of Britain's national health service propelled a debate over state hospital funding to the centre of the election campaign on Monday. Read More »

With $8 million in revenue, Snapchat likely sold around 60,000 pairs of Spectacles during the quarter. Revenue was also lower than expected with the company bringing in $149.6 million in the quarter instead of the $159 million that analysts expected. Read More »

The dollar dropped 0.5 percent to 112.64 yen, slipping further from its highs near 114.40 yen touched last week. On Wednesday the Justice Department appointed a former Federal Bureau of Investigation director as special counsel to investigate alleged Russian interference in November's presidential election, as well as possible collusion by President Donald Trump's campaign team. Read More »

Specifically, the revenue fact sheet released on Monday by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), revealed that Nigeria's crude oil revenue fell from the $37 billion recorded in 2015 to $26 billion in 2016. actual production data from February and new forecasts for crude oil output". Though the deal proposed a cut of 1.8 million barrels, commodity analysts are of the view that this number could be increased. Read More »

The Supreme Federal Tribunal opened an investigation into the accusations and lifted the seal on the recording. Temer is alleged to have talked with Joesley about cash payments to Eduardo Cunha, the former speaker of the House who has been jailed for his role in the sprawling Petrobras corruption scandal. Read More »

There are reasons to believe, for example, that impeachment would not be as strong an issue for Democrats as if they focused on the unpopular Trumpcare health bill which is polling in the 20's and 30's and now moving through the Senate. "We've been betting on impeachment for all recent USA presidents but, even at the height of the Lewinsky scandal, Bill Clinton was only ever 6-1 to be impeached", Price said , as cited by brocker.org. Read More »

The statement also said that the United States remained "open to negotiations" toward peaceful denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula while staying "prepared to defend ourselves and our allies". Not surprisingly, there was global condemnation, including harsh words from the Trump White House. Trump's comments could not immediately be independently verified. Read More »

After Trump abruptly fired Comey last week, Jones and Amash again joined the ranks of Democrats calling for an independent investigation into Russia's possible ties to the Trump administration. Last night, The White House went into lockdown after someone tried to scale a barrier fence . The Russian President added that he was "concerned because it's hard to imagine what the people who produce such nonsense can come up with next". Read More »

His comments came in a wide-ranging interview with the Economist, which posted an edited transcript online. If the notification is indeed sent to Congress Thursday or Friday, renegotiation could begin by mid-August. And much of the trade represents oil. The Congressional Research Service has concluded that the impact of NAFTA on the US economy "has been relatively small". Read More »

According to budget papers, the government expects the fund to ensure an ongoing source of revenue to support Australian skills development and the take-up of apprenticeships and traineeships. Now the nation's top five banks - the Commonwealth, NAB, Wespac, ANZ and Macquarie - will be hit with a 0.06 per cent bank levy on their deposits, starting from July 1 this year. Read More »

John Hoeven, R-N.D., told conservative radio host Scott Hennen Wednesday morning. The unnamed officials said Israel had previously urged the U.S.to be cautious with the said information. "To the extent the prior administration's records of interactions with Mr. Comey about these topics may now be housed at the National Archives or elsewhere, we ask that you make the relevant personnel there aware of the request and authorize them to release the records to the committee", the letter reads. Read More »

The initial payload (i.e. the ransomware software known as WannaCry or WannaCrypt) was brought into the organisations' network via a phishing email, with a user clicking on a malicious link or downloading a malicious file. "We need governments to consider the damage to civilians that comes from hoarding these vulnerabilities and the use of these exploits". The technology behemoth said that on 14 March it had released a security update to patch vulnerability, however many computers globally ... Read More »